Heather Joseph
Heather Joseph
Overview
eather Joseph serves as the Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an international coalition of academic and research libraries working to expand the global, cost-effective digital communication of research results. As SPARC’s Director since 2005, Ms. Joseph leads the strategic and operational activities of the organization, and has focused SPARC’s efforts on supporting emerging communications models for digital articles, data and educational resources. Under her stewardship, SPARC has become widely recognized as the leading international force for effective open access policy advocacy.